The purpose of this essay was to study how people could react to the changes of the society and modernization during the 1800s. The study is based on a qualitative method and the material for this study has been letters that belong to a peasantry family from Sunne, Värmland in Sweden. The purpose with this case studie has been to find out what the letter says about peoples experiences and conditions during the modernization. In this studie the theory of modernization has been limited to geographical mobility and individualism in purpose to see how the correspondent writes about these modern phenomenon. The results show a collectivistic character, but also how the modernization and geographical mobility challenge this concept. The letters also show a interaction between the  character of the peasant society and modernization.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the patients who were cared for at Stockholm's psychiatric hospital during three periods in history: 1890–1895, 1905–1910 and 1920–1925. The variables examined in the statistical part of the essay are the number of newly admitted patients per period and the diagnoses these people receive. The second part of the essay takes a closer look at how patients from different payment classes are described in the application documents. The focus has been on compiling positively and negatively value-laden words to see which and how many words are used and whether there are differences between the different classes and genders. Another class aspect that has been investigated is how daily life in the hospital has differed between the classes.           The findings show that the number of patients per year is constantly increasing. There is only a small change between the first and the second survey period, from 1910 until and during the years 1920–1925, an enormous change takes place. Many people in the country are in line to be admitted to a hospital, which means that patients who are not judged as seriously ill or as a danger to themselves and others are discharged at a high rate. The diagnostic system undergoes several changes during the examined period, which makes it difficult to follow individual diagnoses over time.           The discourse analysis of the application documents shows that the men in the first class were the ones who were given by far the best reviews, both by relatives and by the chief physician. The focus was on their intelligence and good mood. First-class women also generally received good marks, but they commented more on her calmness and dignity, completely in line with the bourgeois ideal that prevailed then. Third-class patients did not enjoy the same amount of positive words at all. Their bodies and ability to work arouse the most interest in the doctor and the amount of information about their background is less. Everyday life also separates the classes. Tasks, leisure activities and food are adapted to the classes' previous lives to facilitate care and read justment to society, which means that in the first class you devote a lot of time to reading and writing, while in the third class you work with the physical operation of the hospital. The food would also mimic the one you were used to before, which meant that the food for first class was more than twice as expensive per person per day compared to the food you ate in third class.

Ao longo do século XIX luso-brasileiro, a biografia do poeta Luís Vaz de Camões emerge, reiteradas vezes, como matéria central de textos ficcionais pertencentes a gêneros literários diversos. No Portugal de Oitocentos, a constatação do estado de decadência da pátria lusitana, aliada a um desejo de restauração da grandeza nacional, resulta na retomada da figura de Camões como símbolo do saudoso passado imperial, cuja glória busca-se recuperar. No Brasil recém-independente, recriações literárias da biografia do poeta classicista português assinalam o estabelecimento de uma complexa relação entre as letras nacionais e as matrizes culturais europeias. A análise dos textos literários selecionados procura integrar, sob a perspectiva do comparatismo literário, os respectivos textos, autores e gêneros ao eixo unificador dos procedimentos ficcionais que configuram a tradição das ressonâncias biográficas camonianas. O diálogo entre literatura e história permite acompanhar a participação ativa de autores e obras em contextos histórico-culturais específicos, mas inter-relacionados. As relações entre ficção e biografia, por sua vez, apontam para a configuração de universos ficcionais a partir de elementos biográficos, com os quais devido à liberdade criadora do fazer artístico e às influências das ideologias e do imaginário , os artistas operam. O recorte observacional da pesquisa se insere, em grande medida, no arco temporal do período romântico, tendo início em 1825, com o poema inaugural do Romantismo português (Camões, de Almeida Garrett), e se estendendo até as comemorações do tricentenário da morte de Camões, em 1880 (ano em que vêm a público peças de Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim e Machado de Assis). No caso de Portugal, a década de 1870 já testemunha o desenvolvimento dos ideais estéticos do Realismo, com implicações sobre a própria configuração do culto a Luís Vaz de Camões, trabalhado ficcional e criticamente por Camilo Castelo Branco. De todo modo, no Brasil e em Portugal, entre os anos de 1825 e 1880, pode ser observado um tratamento específico da figura de Camões, inicialmente idealizada segundo os valores românticos (a exemplo de peças escritas por Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho), em um processo que conduz à consolidação definitiva do mito camoniano em dois países ligados, ao mesmo tempo, pelo passado colonial e por uma tradição cultural comum. / Throughout the Portuguese-Brazilian 19th century, the biography of the poet Luís Vaz de Camões emerges, repeated times, as the main topic of fictional texts belonging to different literary genres. In the Portugal of the 1800s , the assumption of the decaying state of the Portuguese nation, together with the restauration of the national greatness, reclaims Camoes as the symbol of a lost past, whose glory they aim to resurrect. In the recently independent Brazil, literary recreations of the classical Portuguese poets biography denote the establishment of a complex relation in what concerns the national letters and the cultural European matrixes. The analysis of the selected literary texts has the intention of integrating, under the perspective of literary comparatism, texts, authors and genre to the unifying axels of the fictional procedures that represent the tradition of the biographical resonance related to Camoes. The dialogue between Literature and History, on the other hand, leads to the designing of the fictional universes originated from the biographical elements, with which due to the creative freedom of the artistic action and to the influences of the ideologies and of the imaginary-, the artist works. The observational cut of the research is set, to a great extent, at the temporal period of the Romantic period, starting in 1825, with the inaugural poem of the Portuguese Romanticism (Camões, by Almeida Garrett) , up to the celebrations of the third centenary of Camoes death, in 1880 (being this the year when plays by Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim and Machado de Assis become known to the public). In what concerns Portugal, the 1870s are witnesses to the development of esthetical ideals of the Realism, with consequences to the configuration of the worship of Luís Vaz de Camões, used fictional and critically by Camilo Castelo Branco. Therefore, both in Brazil and Portugal, between 1825 and 1880, a specific treatment of Camoess image could be observed, initially idealized according to the Romantic values (plays written by Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho are examples), in a process that takes us to the definite consolidation of the myth towards Camoes in two countries connected by the colonial past and a common cultural tradition , as well.

This essay is a business history about the Swedish midsized tobacco company J A Boman & Co, previously Ferd Körner and Körner & Boman, which was part of the blooming tobacco industry in Sweden during the 19th century.  One purpose of the essay is to fill a gap within both business history in general and the study of tobacco companies in particular, since they both tend to favor studies on larger companies. The other purpose is to find a methodological way to study a smaller sized, older company with very few sources from the actual company. The essay seeks to answer questions about the company’s production history and how it changed over the years. The study takes use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the company and how it developed over time. It is not an essay deeply embedded in theory, it rather seeks to use different theoretical approaches. One approach is a micro level macro theory, that claims that a company only can be understood through the macro level and that the company, itself being the micro level, can deliver exciting new findings that creates a deeper understanding for the macro level. Throughout the essay, the company’s production statistics are examined, and combined with newspaper articles, letters and previous academic works within the field, the essay closes in on answers to the questions that were introduced in the beginning. The examination of the company finds that the midsized company managed to survive through adaptability to its time and circumstances. The company chose to sell their products through merchants instead of directly to the consumers, unlike most of the other tobacco companies at the time. The methodological problem, which was part of the essay’s purpose, was resolved by the combined method described earlier in the abstract, although the essay would admittedly have been better if there had been some papers left from the examined company.

Ao longo do século XIX luso-brasileiro, a biografia do poeta Luís Vaz de Camões emerge, reiteradas vezes, como matéria central de textos ficcionais pertencentes a gêneros literários diversos. No Portugal de Oitocentos, a constatação do estado de decadência da pátria lusitana, aliada a um desejo de restauração da grandeza nacional, resulta na retomada da figura de Camões como símbolo do saudoso passado imperial, cuja glória busca-se recuperar. No Brasil recém-independente, recriações literárias da biografia do poeta classicista português assinalam o estabelecimento de uma complexa relação entre as letras nacionais e as matrizes culturais europeias. A análise dos textos literários selecionados procura integrar, sob a perspectiva do comparatismo literário, os respectivos textos, autores e gêneros ao eixo unificador dos procedimentos ficcionais que configuram a tradição das ressonâncias biográficas camonianas. O diálogo entre literatura e história permite acompanhar a participação ativa de autores e obras em contextos histórico-culturais específicos, mas inter-relacionados. As relações entre ficção e biografia, por sua vez, apontam para a configuração de universos ficcionais a partir de elementos biográficos, com os quais devido à liberdade criadora do fazer artístico e às influências das ideologias e do imaginário , os artistas operam. O recorte observacional da pesquisa se insere, em grande medida, no arco temporal do período romântico, tendo início em 1825, com o poema inaugural do Romantismo português (Camões, de Almeida Garrett), e se estendendo até as comemorações do tricentenário da morte de Camões, em 1880 (ano em que vêm a público peças de Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim e Machado de Assis). No caso de Portugal, a década de 1870 já testemunha o desenvolvimento dos ideais estéticos do Realismo, com implicações sobre a própria configuração do culto a Luís Vaz de Camões, trabalhado ficcional e criticamente por Camilo Castelo Branco. De todo modo, no Brasil e em Portugal, entre os anos de 1825 e 1880, pode ser observado um tratamento específico da figura de Camões, inicialmente idealizada segundo os valores românticos (a exemplo de peças escritas por Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho), em um processo que conduz à consolidação definitiva do mito camoniano em dois países ligados, ao mesmo tempo, pelo passado colonial e por uma tradição cultural comum. / Throughout the Portuguese-Brazilian 19th century, the biography of the poet Luís Vaz de Camões emerges, repeated times, as the main topic of fictional texts belonging to different literary genres. In the Portugal of the 1800s , the assumption of the decaying state of the Portuguese nation, together with the restauration of the national greatness, reclaims Camoes as the symbol of a lost past, whose glory they aim to resurrect. In the recently independent Brazil, literary recreations of the classical Portuguese poets biography denote the establishment of a complex relation in what concerns the national letters and the cultural European matrixes. The analysis of the selected literary texts has the intention of integrating, under the perspective of literary comparatism, texts, authors and genre to the unifying axels of the fictional procedures that represent the tradition of the biographical resonance related to Camoes. The dialogue between Literature and History, on the other hand, leads to the designing of the fictional universes originated from the biographical elements, with which due to the creative freedom of the artistic action and to the influences of the ideologies and of the imaginary-, the artist works. The observational cut of the research is set, to a great extent, at the temporal period of the Romantic period, starting in 1825, with the inaugural poem of the Portuguese Romanticism (Camões, by Almeida Garrett) , up to the celebrations of the third centenary of Camoes death, in 1880 (being this the year when plays by Gomes Leal, Cipriano Jardim and Machado de Assis become known to the public). In what concerns Portugal, the 1870s are witnesses to the development of esthetical ideals of the Realism, with consequences to the configuration of the worship of Luís Vaz de Camões, used fictional and critically by Camilo Castelo Branco. Therefore, both in Brazil and Portugal, between 1825 and 1880, a specific treatment of Camoess image could be observed, initially idealized according to the Romantic values (plays written by Luís Antônio Burgain, Casimiro de Abreu e Antônio Feliciano de Castilho are examples), in a process that takes us to the definite consolidation of the myth towards Camoes in two countries connected by the colonial past and a common cultural tradition , as well.

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The present essay explores artworks of Karin Larsson through the feminist theoretical field of studies. The following three textile works were in the centre of the study, Kärlekens ros, Duk med tecken and Sashiko-gardin. The connection between japonisme, Japanese inspired art, and Karin Larssons art works were studied. Through feminist theories by art historians such as Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock the experience of being a woman in the 1800s affected the works of Karin Larsson were discussed. It was found that Karin Larssons upbringing and education as a woman differs from the usual male art student, which affected her art works. The subjects of her art works were also often the result of personal experiences. Furthermore, a correlation between the art works and Japanese woodblocks and Japanese embroidery techniques were identified.

This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999). At the time they were published each of these books either dealt with a new subject or presented a new approach to a subject. Collectively they represent a body of work that has expanded knowledge of women's lives and writing in nineteenth-century Australia. Although not consciously planned as a sequence at the outset, these books developed as a result of the influence on my thinking of the themes that emerged in Australian social and cultural historical writing during this period. The books also represent a development in my own work from the earlier more documentary-based books on letters and diaries to the interpretive challenge of biographical writing and the weaving of private lives with public achievements. These books make up a cohesive, cumulative body of work. Individually and as a whole, they make an original contribution to knowledge of the lives and achievements of women in nineteenth-century Australia. They received critical praise at the time of publication and have led to renewed interest and further research on the subjects they cover. My own knowledge and expertise has developed as a result of researching and writing them. The Governesses was not only the first full-length study of a particular group of letters but it also documented aspects of the lives of governesses in Australia, a little researched subject to that time. A Colonial Woman, based on a previously unpublished and virtually unknown diary, pointed to the importance of 'ordinary' lives in presenting an enriched view of the past. Pen Portraits documented the early history of women journalists in Australia, a previously neglected subject. Three of the women I included in Pen Portraits, Louisa Atkinson, Tasma and Rosa Praed, the first two of whom were pioneer women journalists as well as novelists, became the subjects of my full-length biographies. In my biographies of women writers, Pioneer Writer, Tasma, and Rosa! Rosa!, I recorded and interpreted the lives of these important writers placing them in the context of Australian cultural history as women who negotiated gender barriers and recorded this world in their fiction. My books on Louisa Atkinson and Tasma were the first full-length biographies of these significant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century women writers, while my biography of Rosa Praed was the first for more than fifty years. Each introduced original research that changed perceptions of the women's lives and consequently of attitudes to their creative work. Each provided information essential for further research on their historical significance and literary achievements. Each involved extensive research that led to informed interpretation allowing insightful surmises essential to quality biography.

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I detta arbete undersöks huruvida planering och resultat angående infrastruktur och expansion av bebyggelse kan ha en påverkan på dagens socioekonomiska förhållanden. Arbetet ska genom dokumentstudier av äldre general-, trafik-, översikts- och detaljplaner från 1920- till 1990-talet samt litteraturstudier angående stadsbyggnadsprinciper besvara detta. Dessutom granskas resvaneundersökningar för respektive stad samt dagens utbud, tidtabeller och restider. De valda förorterna är Saltsjöbaden, Vällingby, Skärholmen och Rinkeby i Storstockholm samt Långedrag, Kortedala, Länsmansgården och Rannebergen i Storgöteborg. Alla förorter är etablerade under 1900-talet och ligger geografiskt sett ungefär lika långt från deras respektive stadskärna.  Arbetets frågeställning är vilka stadsbyggnadsprinciper som påverkar infrastrukturen i förorter, i vilken utsträckning planeringen av infrastrukturen skiljer sig jämfört med dagens läge och om det finns ett samband mellan socioekonomiska skillnader och ej genomförda planer. Tidigare forskning visar på många faktorer till varför olika förorter blivit socioekonomiskt utsatta, exempelvis bidrar den monotona och storskaliga arkitekturen till sämre attraktivitet.   Resultatet för detta arbete tyder på att även planer som inte fullständigt genomförts skulle kunna ha en negativ effekt på det socioekonomiska indexet och därmed varför vissa förorter blivit utsatta och mindre attraktiva. Detta eftersom det finns skillnad i planeringen av ABC- och sovstäder då det finns ett större behov av fungerande infrastruktur där det inte finns möjlighet att arbeta där man bor. I Rannebergen fullföljdes aldrig planerna om varken en spårväg, centrum eller arbetsmöjligheter i närområdet och detta område har även ett av de lägre socioekonomiska indexen idag. I både Rannebergen och Rinkeby färdigställdes kollektivtrafiken först flera år efter att de första invånarna flyttade till platserna och liksom Rannebergen har Rinkeby ett lägre socioekonomiskt index idag. Däremot finns inga tydliga mönster vad gäller frekvenser och restider mellan stadsdelarna och deras socioekonomiska situationer. Slutsatsen av detta arbete är att planer angående exempelvis centrum, arbetsplatser och infrastruktur bör fullföljas enligt planerna och färdigställas så snabbt som möjligt för stadsdelar som inte är självförsörjande gällande exempelvis centrum och arbetsplatser. / In this paper it is investigated whether planning and the results regarding infrastructure and expansion of settlements of some suburbs have an impact on today’s socioeconomic situation. This paper will answer this by doing document studies of the older plans, general plans, traffic plans, overview plans, detail plans, between the 1920s and the 1990s, as well as making literature studies regarding principles in urban planning. In addition to this, habit surveys for traveling for each city as well as today’s situation, timetables and travel times are analyzed. The chosen suburbs are Saltsjöbaden, Vällingby, Skärholmen and Rinkeby in Stockholm and Långedrag, Kortedala, Länsmansgården and Rannebergen in Gothenburg. All of the chosen suburbs were established during the 19th century and are located at the same distance from the city center.  The question in this paper is which principle in the urban planning affects the infrastructure in the suburb and to what extent the planning of the infrastructure differs in comparison to today’s situation and lastly if there is a pattern between socioeconomic index and unimplemented plans. Previous research points towards different factors to why various suburbs are socioeconomic vulnerable, for example the monotonous and large-scale architecture contribute to poorer attractiveness.  The result of this paper points towards that plans which not fully are implemented also could have a negative impact on the socioeconomic situation and could be a reason why different suburbs are vulnerable and not as attractive as others. This is because there are differences in the planning of ABC-cities and dormitory suburbs as there is a greater need for functioning infrastructure where it is not possible to work where you live. In Rannebergen the plans were not completed concerning neither the tramway, the city center or work opportunities in the immediate area and this area also has a lower socioeconomic situation today. In both Rannebergen and Rinkeby the public transport were completed several years after the first inhabitants moved to the areas and like Rannebergen, Rinkeby also has a lower socioeconomic situation today. However, there are no clear patterns in terms of frequencies and journey times between the areas and their socioeconomic situations. The conclusion of this paper is that the plans concerning for example city centers, working opportunities and infrastructure should be completed as quickly as possible for districts that are not self-sustaining concerning for example city centers and working opportunities.